It’s a total anathema that Bucharest’s Parliament Palace was designed in such opulence to house all the organs of a communist state. It is the second largest building in the world after the Pentagon and cost six billion dollars to bring it to 90% completion. The sheer magnitude screams excess! Nicolae Ceauşescu was totally out …
I’m sitting by an open window by a lake in the Cişmigiu Gardens near my hotel looking at young people having fun in rowing boats. I watch ducks paddling, dunking and flapping their wings and all the time can’t but help hear the birds in the trees, not just singing but singing piercingly. A truly sylvan …
This is not to be my week obviously. Two days ago, it was the young lady at the Airport Limousine Desk at the Suvarnabhumi Airport, who suggested I take a train, yes, a train, to my hotel in Bangkok because of road blocks by the ‘Red Shirts’ protestors. Now, here in Bucharest, I’m kept waiting …